#SeemsLikeYesterdaySundays #SlovenskaDružina #Pintar #Krajc #OnThisDay #Birthdays February 11 ~ Both Bob’s great grandmother and grandmother were born on February 11.. Great grandmother Josefa Pintar was born in Cerknic in 1869 and her daughter, grandmother Mary Krajc in 1888. Mary emigrated to Utah where she met and married Jacob Shobar. pics~ Josefa outside her home in Cerknic and the back of a postcard telling her daughter in America she was missed. And a pic of Mary
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Barbara Zagar ~ Bob’s 3Great aunt~Barbara Zagar was born on April 23, 1871, in Slovenia. She married Peter Petrus S Sodja on July 27, 1891, in Butte, Montana. They had 12 children in 19 years. She died on December 6, 1922, in Payette, Idaho, at the age of 51, and was buried there. We came to know this family connection through the DNA testing 23andMe. It opened many more genealogy doors
– [x] Great great grandpa and grandma Dominic and Agnes had nine children between 1858 and 1878. The in 1879 tragedy struck. The three youngest children contracted diphtheria. Johann, the youngest 11 months died Feb. 14. Two months later Katherine age 9 died Apr 14. 10 days later Michael age three children. Services were held at the Church of the Maternity (first Catholic Church in Manitowoc county) and all three are buried in St Mary’s Cemetery, Manitowoc Rapids, their graves marked by simple wooden crosses
#MondayMemories #FamigliadiItalia #FindoftheDay #MaryDellAnna One of the great things about genealogy is unexpectedly finding a piece of the puzzle. My Aunt Mary, her husband Pietro and their young son travelled to Gordona, Italy in 1933 to visit the Dell’Annna and D’Agostino families. While there Aunt Mary contracted scarlet fever and died. Before Uncle Pete could return with his son he needed a document from the US consul confirming the death of an US citizen abroad. I found that certificate online. Beside death info it revealed other important facts. I do love this hobby (obsession)
Here in St. Helena my grandpa, Maurice Gilbert, has dozens of rare ice cream scoops. He’s been collecting these scoops for 50 years and still is.
He has a banana split disher from 1928 and a Hamilton Beach No-Pak scoop from 1925.
The rarest in his collection, from 1926, is the “cold dog.” It’s a long tube for a special cone.
He also has the Dan Dee ice cream sandwich dipper from 1920, the profit scoop from Thrifty Stores where ice cream cones sold for 5 cents, also a Dover, N.H. 1927 scoop with a unique cut-off feature that sliced the ice cream, and a tower of ice cream scoop dating to 1940.
A variety of the ice cream scoops are arranged in an ice cream cone-shaped cabinet that he made. The cabinet also contains scoops from the late 1800s that dispensed ice cream by turning a key which operated two blades on the inside of the scoop to release the ice cream on the cone.
He still searches out other rare scoops he knows are waiting to be found.
(Editor’s note: Lisa Butala is a fifth-grader at Howell Mountain School. She is proud of her grandfather, who operated the Big Dipper soda fountain on Oak Avenue with his wife, Esther, the shop’s founder, from 1980-2004.)
Peter and Magdalena Simmer
Our Zimmer(Simmer) German roots can be traced back to 1805 and my great great great grandparents Peter and Magdalena Simmer living in Dalheim, Remich, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg where they were farmers. In 1842 the emigrated to America with their three small children Nicholas, John and Peter. They settled near relatives in Manitowoc Rapids WI and continued as farmers. They would have 6 more children.
Farms in Dalheim
Manitowoc Rapids
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#WaybackWednesday #SvenkaFamilj #Grek #Birthdays~ This is the 180th birthday of my great great grandmother Christina Henrikson Grek ..Born in 1836 in Elfsbacka Sweden, in 1868 she emigrated to Cocato Minnesota with her husband Lars Grek and three small children, the youngest only four months old. She would have five more children after settling in Cocato. She is buried in the Cocato Lutheran Cemetery. The postcard pictures the Elfsbacka countryside.
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Peter Haase BIRTHDAY June 10
